A Scots mother-of-five has died from sepsis after being admitted to hospital with a "chest infection" - as her family pay ...

Rising central-line infections fuel healthcare-associated endocarditis with high mortality. Experts urge better catheter use, removal, and infection control. Central-line associated bloodstream ...

Undersized donor hearts were indeed associated with more post-transplantation mortality -- but only among complex transplant ...

Medically reviewed by Rafle Fernandez, MD Valvular heart disease, sometimes called heart valve disease, is when one or more ...

COVID emerged suddenly, spread rapidly and killed millions of people around the world. Since then, I think it's fair to say that most people have been nervous about the emergence of the next big ...

Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at UC San Francisco, said people should be on the lookout for the “Big Four”: three respiratory viruses currently moving through the U.S ...

Whether the large size of the vegetation (>1 cm) or location (anterior mitral leaflet) alone are indications for valve replacement surgery in bacterial endocarditis remains a subject of debate.

Queen's Infection Prevention & Control (IPAC) Online Professional Development Course is a fully online program with interactive content for health professionals who are new to or are about to enter ...

Background Bacteraemia and infective endocarditis (IE) are rare but severe complications of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). Limited data exist on the incidence and microbiological ...

Bacterial endocarditis was suspected; the patient received oral aureomycin, 2 gm. daily, for 2 weeks, followed by penicillin, 800,000 units daily by intramuscular injection, for 4 weeks.

Research in the Department ranges from the fundamental biology of infectious diseases to the development and application of new approaches to treatment. The Department of Infectious Disease is ...

Background: Aetiological diagnosis and targeted antibiotic therapy are essential to improve the prognosis of patients with infective endocarditis. Molecular tests on blood have been reported to be ...